Is Lyletton and Henops Park Tower in PTA working

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Does anyone know if these towers are switched on?

According to the calculator i am about 10km from the Lyletton tower, will a get signal if I use a satellite

What does ProAsm mean when he says new towers will use ATM[:p]
 
Working on information as an Agent I have been told that the Cape Town towers are now being switched on and are number one in the roll out list, next are the Pretoria towers, which is the one you mentioned and the others in PTA which will give coverage to Moreletta and Faerie Glen areas, Lyttleton, Centurion......

The information that I have says that the towers will be online by the middle to end of this month, I do not know exact dates and have not been told which ones first and which ones last but that is what I heard last which was at a meeting on friday.

if you are 10Km for the tower you prob. will need a high gain antenna which is the dish (prob. at that distance you will need one 8 out of 10 if not definately) but stranger things have happened with the singal just bouncing off places and people way out of the footprint getting great singal that is if you arent in a shadow depending on how the tower is placed.

Get someone out to test when the towers are online and see what gives and they will give you your options on what you can do to connect to the Sentech network and what the costs involved will be to your options, remember there is always more than one option to any solution and dont always take the first option which is always the more expensive one d;-)
 
'ATM' can have two meanings "At the momement" and "Asynchronis Transfer Mode", depending on wording. The second one is a protocol ussually used by Telecoms companies for their fiber connections. It allows for 155 Mbps and is connection based, as opposed to packet based (IP). Connection based means that you reserve a connection of say 512Kbps. So the routers will reject new connections if it already has 155 connections of 1Mbps each even though each connection only carries say only 256 Kbps on average.

As for connecting beyond 6km, I'll be very surprized. Last thing ProAsm said on the issue was that all towers will reject connections from beyond 6km, because it makes them much more efficient. So if your signal get's tested, make sure the guy checks that the signal is in fact from a tower closer than 6km, and that he is able to connect to it before you signup and/or buy an antenna.


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